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Constrained vs unconstrained labor supply : the economics of dual job holding

Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Renna, Francesco - 2017

This paper develops a unified model of dual and unitary job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. The model incorporates both constrained and unconstrained labor supply. Panel data methods are adapted to accommodate unobserved heterogeneity and multinomial selection into 6 mutually...

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The dynamics of working hours and wages under implicit contracts

Guerrazzi, Marco; Giribone, Pier Giuseppe - 2021

In this paper, we explore the dynamics of working hours and wages in a model economy where a firm and its workforce are … solutions rely on factors that usually determine the enforceability of contracts and we provide evidence that wages tend to move …-cyclical pattern of wages but is helpful in explaining their dynamic behaviour in response to demand shocks as well as their typical …

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Decent work and the quality of work and employment

Green, Francis - 2021

This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the narrower concept of 'job quality'. The key axiom is that 'quality' relates to the extent and manner in which working conditions meet people's needs from work. The review emphasises...

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Working 37.5 hours per week : who truly gains from Spain’s new workweek reform?

Narazani, Edlira - 2025

In December 2024, Spain's government reached an agreement with the country's major trade unions to reduce the standard workweek to 37.5 hours without wage cuts by the end of 2025. This paper provides an ex-ante assessment of the proposed reform using EUROLAB, a discrete choice labour supply...

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Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2023

higher wages than those working on-site, and the difference increased sharply during the pandemic. Real wages grew 4 …

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Who works longer hours in smart cities?

Cai, Zhengyu - 2025

This paper investigates how human capital concentration in cities is associated with working hours across different worker groups, an important but understudied dimension of urban agglomeration effects. Using microdata from the American Community Survey covering 240 metropolitan statistical...

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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession

Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...

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Evaluating the impact of the Mariel Boatlift on women’s labor market outcomes : a synthetic difference-in-differences analysis

Wang, Yifan; Wang, Chunbei; Holmes, Chanita - 2025

, unemployment, wages, and hours worked. Using data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and its Annual Social and Economic …

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Occupational licensing and the gender wage gap

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2020

We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...

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Variable pay and work hours : does performance pay reduce the gender time gap?

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2024

Using German survey data, we show that performance pay is associated with a substantially lower gender hours gap. While performance pay increases the work hours of both men and women, the increase is much larger for women than for men. This finding persists in worker fixed effects estimates. We...

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